Adam with a laptop is not basically different from Adam with a hoe in his hand. Any changes in the interim have been superficial and transitory while nature and needs have remained constant and transcending. We still need God and each other. Love for our Maker and for each other still guarantees the best life--in the Garden or in the 21st century. Personal relationships are still the source of greatest satisfaction--in the Garden or right now, in a mansion or in a hovel. As we were created, so we remain, natures and needs unaltered and unalterable--no matter that external changes make it look like we are different.
God grant us eyes that see beyond the confusing outward-changing scene to the basic value system that, though unseen, is forever unchanging.
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At the conclusion of the movie ANZIO, Robert Mitchum was standing under an archway in the freshly liberated city of Rome. Musing over the futility of war and the ancient Roman soldiers who fought there he said, "Two thousand years and nothing changes except the uniforms and the transportation."
